May 2017 #14 'A baby each day in the month of May?...'

[RasperryInAMelon]

Thread 14... I'll post the other page links below too!

@beanturnipandspud the Chinese gender predictor is correct for baby sunflower. Would be interesting to see how accurate it is for everyone.

@Rustler74 I really want a crumpet now, may have to stock up on some!

@dreamofhungarianlanterns I am loving the pictures of the ducklings, they are so cute!

@savagehk I've got 2 Victoria sponges, 1 chocolate cake and 2 banana breads in the freezer ready! 😳😃

@RasperryInAMelon I've been for 2 dog walks and bounced on my ball for over an hour but nothing! I'll have to go buy a few dozen pineapples and a hot curry tomorrow I think...

@Rustler74 mmmmmm, crumpets 😋

Whoops I got some crumpet fever going!
Loving the ducklings! How cute are they! Also a bird nest cam sounds incredibly cute!

I'm so easily influenced, I want crumpets now! 😂

How strange, catching up on this thread eating crumpets with butter and honey!

Had a terrible start to the day. Decided to take rhe recycling out this morning at about 8:40, DH had already left for work.
I'm in a nightdress,slippers and dressing gown and I am SURE I have put the door on the latch-no such luck. It blew shut behind me!!!! I stood on the step for a good 10 minutes thinking about what to do next.
my mobile is inside, DH auntie who has spare keys is on holiday (and a 15 min walk in my pyjamas!) There is a handyman shop but doesn't open until 9:30.
In the end I went 2 doors down and managed to catch my neighbour taking his kids to school and asked him to call me a locksmith. His wife invites me in and makes me tea and toast.
I live in a very conservative muslim area and I was standing around in slippers and a dressing gown.
The shame!!!!
Locksmith came after an hour and got me back in and I've been out and taken some flowers round.
I will NEVER trust the latch again and I will always make sure I have my keys even to just pop outside the front door.

In baby news I think the stress has done something, I have been having lower back cramps for hours. Spent some time on the ball but the most comfortable position is lying down with my bum in the air. Hoping this is the start of something!

Oh bless @MissMooMoo what a story! At least you found warm and safe place to wait for the handyman. When we moved in and called the locksmith to even the hinges he said the front door lock is a commercial/ shop type one and it will be easier to break the window glass rather than open our front door. It made me always carry the keys with me even when I leave the house for a few mins and the backyard doors is closed.

Good luck with the little one, we may have a new arrival soon

@teainbed definitely better today, one side we've got sorted but the other is still pretty sore so taking a little more work from me and baby!

When I say night feeds I mean the husband wants to do an evening one once my supply is established enough to express enough, so he can feel a little more involved once he's back at work in the day. Definitely agree it makes more sense for me to do the 'through the night' ones so at least one of us is sleeping.
Everyone keeps saying sleep when the baby sleeps but I find it very hard to 'nap' and sleep in the day. When I do I often think it just makes me feel worse, and more emotional?!

I'm understanding those with trouble with PIL's. we're currently in an argument with husbands father as he wants us to fit around him for visiting the baby, when husband has his final exam this week for his masters, we might be moving this week and we have a baby whose less than a week old. He's not really a part of my husbands life anyway so makes me so mad he expects us to fit around him constantly.

@dreamofhungarianlanterns loving the ducking pics! So adorable!

@beanturnipandspud Chinese calendar was wrong for me 🙈 love these sorts of things though, they always make me wonder how they figure them out?!

@MissMooMoo fingers crossed for you 🤞🏻keep us updated!

Oh no MissMoo! At least it was now rather than after the baby is born. I actually know two new mums who managed to lock themselves out with their babies inside in a sleep deprived haze. One had to break a stained glass window to get back in. Cost hundreds to fix.

The Chinese gender predictor is wrong for me (assuming scan is right) but when I put my 'Chinese age' in at conception I remember that was right 

@Rustler74 your DH is so sweet, that's a lovely thing to say and completely worthy of happy tears!

@dreamofhungarianlanterns those ducklings are doing well! Lovely to have them around and swimming well 

@MissMooMoo that must've been a shock! Glad you got in ok and exciting something may be starting.

@newbieho so glad you have baby birds too, I love this time of year for new wildlife. Good job keeping them safe from the cats too!

Bird box has been a bit stressful today, one poor little mite got flicked out of the nest cup and ended up on their own for ages and it was so cold today.

Oh no missmoo how embarrassing!

I've chilled out again today after talking to mother yesterday. For some reason I don't mind strangers or neighbours asking me the same sort of things that really wind me up when coming from family.

I managed to survive through the power cut today without going into labour!

I have a question about earlier labour. Is it better to rest and conserve your energy or move about to get things going?

fox my doula says rest (in the warm and dark if poss, maybe watching a funny film) to keep oxytocin levels high

southpole big congratulations!

Well I'm waxed coloured and painted ... officially ready for baby to pop out somewhere in the next 4 weeks!!
Bump is super low down and getting lots of pressure in my cervix. Hopefully that will mean baby arrives in next 2 weeks.
I'm so torn on induction at 40+12 there is a big part of me that thinks like savage and then the little minx on my shoulder who's like 'they are offering for pregnancy to be over ... take it you fool' Hopeful it won't come to that but in all honesty have no idea what I would do. I think as my blood pressure is on the higher end that would make hanging on in there less safe but I need to read up on that, savage do you know anything about gestational hypertension and going overdue?
Chinese calendar is wrong for my first born, will be interesting to see if this one is right which is 💙

Hello everyone! Congrats to all the new mummies! I've been awol for a while and I don't actually recognise some of the names so if I've not met you then hello!
I'm due in three days now...lots of pain and cramps in the evening but when I wake up it's all fine...think it's just from hanging out with a very busy toddler all day!
I am not expecting an early arrival and really stressing about going overdue- starting to get to the end of my tether now. Fingers crossed we have a baby by the end of the week!

fox conflicting views on that one. If you know you're in for the long haul, sleep would be best... but if you stay active, maybe it wouldn't be as long a haul! I think "go with the flow" (phase I hate, but is in one of my hypnobirthing tracks!) and do what your body tells you to. And probably try to eat something before your digestion shuts down in later labour. Probably see at first how frequent the contractions are and take the call from there. If they're already thick & fast, then probably try and keep active and move things along.

Last time labour started early evening so I sent hubby to bed after supper while I lay downstairs dozing off between contractions and listening to my hypnobirthing tracks. Sending him to bed was definitely a good idea as it was a very long labour in the end.

Fox at the risk of sounding like a right hippy, I'd go with whatever feels right for you at the time. When my first labour started I just had this urge to head to the park and walk really fast. Definitely got things moving. DH was trailing behind me asking if I was sure this was a good idea!

peas not read up about overdueness and blood pressure, no, but is your blood pressure normally high or only related to the pregnancy? It probably just makes you a little bit more 'high risk' so a little bit more cautious.

@peasandquiet - I had GHypertension with both of mine. They didn't let me go past my due date with DD, induced at 39+5, and DS was also induced but only after my waters broke at 37+2. No problems with induction for me. They said my high BP could cause baby to be distressed.

I've had pre-eclampsia and PIH. If the baby was fine, and urine and bloods and things were ok if was fine to still be pregnant but the minute one of those things went off they wanted the baby out.

Blood pressure is only pregnancy related savage. Was much higher in my first pregnancy which ended in spontaneous labour at 39w. This time I'm up one week and down the next, will ask about the 'policy' when i see MW this week, I'm guessing if it's up at 40w appt then I'd be referred to hospital for them to decide if I need inducing.
What sort of numbers were you at wish? I'm always under 140/100 so wonder if this is too low for them to intervene even at 40-42w.

Well baby can just stay put tonight. Had a crap night last night as it would not stop wriggling, so sleep was few and far between. 39+1 today and DD was a 40+2 baby so not expecting this one to go early, despite having early labour signs for 9 days now. It has firmly lodged itself on top of my lungs - I don't know how, I just know that breathing while sitting on the sofa is pretty impossible in the evenings so most times I'm just going off to bed early. I'm sure DH thinks I've aged 20 years in the past few weeks!

Last time I was not having any inductions, but with the various twinges and pains I had recently I think I'm definitely leaning towards anything they want to give me. Whilst I'd like to try the MLU, at this point I'd rather have it out than have to wait a possible 3 weeks for the sake of what's really just a few hours.

I'm also totally over being a whiny pregnant person and trying not to just moan to everyone I speak to.

Back in hospital over the weekend for iron levels 🙄 but met with my consultant today and finally have a date for the CS... next Monday! May 15th. I'm having steroid injections which hurt like a mother-effer and tomorrow is pre op. HOMEWARD STRETCH!

Oh peach, what has happened to the little chick? That must be distressing to watch though such a high percentage of most broods are never going to survive. I wouldn't particularly have put myself down as a bird person before but they do have distinct little personalities.

Welcome back sonnet
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Missmoo* wowzer that must have been stressful, though if you weren't on nodding and waving terms with your neighbour before I'm sure you are now.

Just been to yoga to try and squish this baby out, he's having a good old wriggle now

Savage, Esmes, Peas, Stationary and anyone else who has done this before - how did you know it was definitely labour and not just BH or false labour? Every day now I have times where I get some contractions and get really uncomfortable. But then it just goes. At what point do you know it's actual labour and call DH?!

@WishIWasSleeping your MIL sounds my like Mum. I love her to bits but anything I ask of her is always a drama. I've got to go back to hospital tomorrow for some more tests, and the hospital is an hour away. Didn't want DH to take another day off work, so I asked if she wouldn't mind driving from her house (A), to my house (B) to get to (C) hospital. She's close by as they are at their home at the moment rather than the holiday home near Norfolk. I mean I could drive, but I'm uncomfortable all the time and tired, and I'm a little bit fragile at the moment. B to C is an hour on country roads, I'm not too familiar with the road as I'm usually the passenger. Trains would mean a switch over.

FUCK ME there was a million and one excuses and I just went "fine don't bother it's honestly fine" and in the end, DH had to take another days leave. She always reminds me that I have my own family, but sometimes you need your Mum. She's said she might not to come to the hospital to meet baby to give us space too. I either get smothering or distance! I can't win!

I've been away a couple of days, not sure I can catch up with you all!! I'll have to do some now and some tomoz!

raspberry I was in fur monitoring again yesterday as her movements were much less and it felt like she'd moved around. Mw says she thinks she has but I was right to get checked.

ticky so pleased your mums friend was able to help with the bf :)

I love the duckling updates dream :)

rise was it you who shared the penguin hypnobirthing downloads? Love them thanks!

tea I don't know how you're coping with the ongoing cluster feeding and fussing. Is it a mix of hormones, maternal instinct, grit, love and necessity?!

jw and newbie I def have a waddle on and a definite increase in pressure down there, it's rather uncomfortable. Some days more than others. Mw says head is nicely engaged.

peach oh god I love the idea of a bird box cam!!! how sweet.

Thanks for sharing link savage

Love the soppy post rustler